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this garden lias been accounted one of the heft in England. 
After the death of lord Trevor, this feat was purchafed by 
Mr. Hill, merchant, of London, from whofe family it de- 
fcended to William Shard, efq. who flill preferves the ex¬ 
ploded ftyle in his gardens; and indeed with great pro¬ 
priety, their vicinity to the houfes in Peckham not per¬ 
mitting them to be laid open according to the modern 
tafte. The experienced gardener from Paris, mentioned 
above, was, probably, one of the pupils of the celebrated 
Le Notre, the plan of the wildernefs in thefe gardens being 
not unlike that of the Elyfian Fields in the gardens of the 
Thuilleries. This place has a fair on the 21ft, 23d, and 
23d, days of Auguit; and fucceeds that of Camberwell, 
which is on the iStb, 19th, and 20th. 
Dulwich, the other hamlet of this parifli, has been no¬ 
ticed in its proper place, vol. vi. 
NEW'INGTON GREE'N, a village in Middlefex, 
between Iilington and Stoke-Newington. It confifts of a 
liandfome fquare, with a grafs-plat in the middle; is 
partly in the parifli of Iilington, and partly in that of 
Newington. On one fide of it is a meeting-houfe, of 
which the late celebrated Dr. Price was minifter for many 
years. An old houfe, in the centre of the fouth fide, is 
laid to have been the refidence of Henry VIII. and a foot¬ 
path in the neighbourhood retains the name of King 
Harry’s Walk. On the ceiling of the principal room of 
this houfe are the arms and initials of James I. Over the 
fire-place are the arms of lord Compton. This houfe is 
now divided. 
NEW'INGTON-STO'KE, or Stoke-Newington, a 
parifli and village in the hundred of Oflulton, Middlefex, 
is fituated at a fhort diftance north-eafc of Iflington. The 
parifli is bounded by thofe of Hackney, Iflington, Hornfey, 
and Tottenham ; and contains, exclulive of the ground 
covered with houfes, about 500 acres of land, chiefly laid 
dowm in pafture. The manor has, from time immemo¬ 
rial, been attached to a prebend in St. Paul’s cathedral. 
Thomas Sutton, efq. who occafionally refided at the 
manor-houfe, which he held on a leale of ninety-nine 
years, founded the Charter-houfe in this village. The 
church is a low ancient edifice, containing a great va¬ 
riety of monuments and infcriptions ; but none of them 
feem entitled to particular notice. Behind it is a ve¬ 
nerable avenue of elms, called Queen Elizabeth’s Walk; 
but it does not appear how it came by that title. .The 
prelent manor-houfe was built by Mr. Gunfton, whole 
death was commemorated by Dr. Watts in a funeral 
poem. This excellent man ended his days in this 
houfe, having palled the latter part of his life in the fa¬ 
mily of lady Abney, filler of Mr. Gunfton. Newington 
has been honoured with the refidence of feveral other 
eminent perfons, among!! whom we may mention Da¬ 
niel Defoe, author of Robinfon Crufoe; Thomas Day, 
who wrote Sandford and Merton; and the benevolent 
John Howard, whofe compaflionate fympathy with that 
unhappy clafs of mortals immured within prifon-walls, 
has immortalized his name. In the parilh-records is re- 
giftered the burial of Bridget, eldeft daughter of Oliver 
Cromwell, who married Gen. Fleetwood. 
Here is a charity-lchool, eftablilhed before the year 1729, 
and fupported partly by endowments, and partly by vo¬ 
luntary contributions and colle 61 ions at cbarity-fermons : 
twenty boys and fifteen girls are clothed and educated in 
this fchool; belides which, there is one belonging to the 
Dilfenters, where fourteen girls receive their clothes and 
education. In the parliamentary returns of 1801, the 
number of houfes in this parifli was eftimated at 221, and 
the inhabitants at 1462 in number; but by the late returns 
(1811) it appears to contain 364 houfes, and a population 
of 2149 perfons. Lyfons's Environs of London, vol. iii. 
Wilkes's Britijh Directory, vol. v. Appendix. Mrs. Wake¬ 
field 's Perambulations in London and its Environs. Lambert's 
Hijl. of London. 
NEW'ISH, adj. As if lately made.— 1 ‘ drinketh not 
newijh at all. Bacon's JSat. Hijl, 
NEW 
NEW'LAND, a fmall illand, near the north-weft coaft: 
of the county of Cornwall, at the mouth of the river 
Alan : four miles below Padftow. 
NEW'LAND, a town, or rather a fcattered village, in 
Gloucefterfliire, near Coleford, on the weft fide of the 
Foreft of Dean, on the borders of Monmouthlhire, near 
the Wye, little more than three miles from Monmouth. 
Here are divers coal-pits and iron-mines, fome of them 
exhaufted, which are fixty or feventy feet deep; and fome 
copper-works. Befides other charitable foundations, there 
is a large hofpital in this parilh, founded for fixteen men 
and women, who are allowed 2s. a-w’eek each, and a gown 
at Chriftmas. Its chaplain, who is obliged alfo to be lec¬ 
turer atNewland, receives one hundred marks early from 
the Haberdalhers’ Company in London. One of the in¬ 
habitants in this parifli, is pofiefled of the cradle of king 
Henry V. w r ho was born at Monmouth: the whole is made 
of oak, and the part where the infant lay is an oblong 
cheft open at the top, with an iron ring at the head and 
another at the feet, by which it hangs upon hooks fixed 
in two upright pieces, ftrongly mortiled in a frame which 
lies upon the floor : thus fufpended, the cradle is eafily 
put in motion. Each of the upright pieces is ornamented 
at the top with the figure of a dove, gilt, and tolerably 
well executed. 
The Foreft of Dean, in which the parifli of Newland is 
fituated is reckoned to be thirty miles in compafs, and 
to contain 23,000 acres of land, and 4703 inhabitants. 
This diftrift is inhabited by poor miners and colliers; 
who, as the Forejl is extra-parochial, have no claim on the 
fervices of any clergyman, and have been confequently 
left to the guidance of their own untutored underftand- 
ings. The church of Newland having been, from im¬ 
memorial ufage, generally confidered as the parifli-church 
of the Foreft, for marriages, baptifms, and burials, the 
prefent vicar, the Rev. P. M. Prodtor, was frequently 
called upon to vilit the fick. In the difcharge of this 
charitable office, he became an eye-witnefs to their po¬ 
verty, and was led to a more immediate knowledge of the 
Hate of their morals and religious views, which produced 
in his mind moll painful and anxious feelings. The man¬ 
ners of an untutored people are too w'ell known to need 
any explanation. Moved by companion to their igno¬ 
rance, Mr. P. determined to make an effort to reclaim 
them from the error of their ways ; and, for this purpofe, 
appropriated one evening in the week for viliting the 
Foreft, in order to inftruct them there, after the clofe of 
their daily labours, in the principles of the Chriftian re¬ 
ligion. This was done in one of their cottages : he had 
no other means of communicating inftrudlion to them, 
as they felt themfelves under no obligation to attend di¬ 
vine worlhip. Mr. Prodtor thus began his great work of 
„moralizing the part of the Foreft adjacent to him in 1804; 
and, in June 1812, he laid the foundation-ftone of a build¬ 
ing to be appropriated to the education of children on the 
plan of the national fchools on Dr. Bell’s fyftem. The 
building was opened on Jan. 6, 1813 ; and, in June 1814, 
290 children had been admitted. But it was a part of 
this reverend gentleman’s intention, that the fame edifice 
which was uled as a fchool for fix days in the week fhould 
be appropriated to divine fervice on the fab bath. By his 
indefatigable exertions he foon obtained an epifcopal li- 
cenfe, and at length had the pleafure to witnefs the regu¬ 
lar confecration of this, thefirft place of worlhip of any fort 
or denomination ever known in the Foreft of Dean. On 
Wednefday, the 17 th of July, 1816, the lord billiop of the 
diocefe, after a previous confirmation held in the parilh- 
church ofNewland, arrived at the New Chapel, eredled and 
endowed by voluntary fubfcription for the ufe of the fo- 
refters who are extra-parochial, under the aufpices and 
with the exertions of the Rev. P. M. Proflor, vicar of 
Newland. This edifice, when firft erected, would con¬ 
tain about four hundred fouls; but has lately been en¬ 
larged, and will now hold nearly a thoufand perfons. 
There is a fpacious and convenient room, annexed, for the 
3 purpofe 
